Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.